The Rants & Rambles of A Grumpy Old Dude

Flash Fiction #136

Come on! Give it a try. You said you agreed that we eat too much artery-clogging meat, and were willing to give a healthy vegan lifestyle a try.

Yeah, but when I agreed to that, I envisioned potatoes and beans, perhaps broccoli and cauliflower – possibly lots of salads, with iceberg or romaine lettuce, radishes, cucumber and green onions – even ovo-lacto, with chopped, boiled eggs and bits of old cheddar cheese. I never imagined eating flowers. What kind of dressing do you put on them – Kim Kardashian’s perfume??

I can’t wait to put this meal on Instagram. No-one will believe it. 🙄

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Go to Rochelle’s Addicted to Purple site and use her Wednesday photo as a prompt to write a complete 100 word story.

Why do we blog?? Because we think that what we have to say will interest other people. The food photographers just have more ego/insecurity than most, or don’t understand the limits of others’ interest. 😛

Like politics or religion, I wanted to tweak those who go overboard with veganism/healthy living. The adult son would steal my rare steak if he could, but will pass on the Brussels Sprouts, calling them ‘little green brains’, from an old TV commercial. 😆

If eating that drek produces Kardashians, I’m staying away from it! I saw a Kardashianoid at market yesterday. Her pouty lips arrived five minutes before she did, and I was still finishing my hot chocolate when her butt finally left. 😯

Like Christians, Vegans come in a wide range. The self-righteous ovo-lacto bunch won’t eat ‘meat’, but will chow down on eggs and milk/cheese.
A Vegan honcho recently admitted that the diet is not healthy unless you include Vitamin B-12 supplements. 🙄

Viewed from the outside, the vegan lifestyle can be funny. 😆
Where do you repose that you use the British ‘humour’ version of the word? I write ‘humor’ and ‘honor’ and ‘plow’, for the predominantly American section of my readers. 😉

An elderly acquaintance who’s an avid “all-natural & herbal” fan was telling us one day that “These (anti-cancer) drugs the doctors give you all have side effects. But plant derivatives, being all natural, will have NO side effects!”
We laughed about it later. Marijuana, Opium, Nicotine, Belladonna, Hemlock, Poison Ivy & Oak, Foxglove, Poinsettia, Castor bean, plus those you mentioned. 🙂